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Mark Ruffalo: I Won’t Be Incarnating David Koresh!

Just because Mark Ruffalo looks like a certain whacked-out cult leader who killed more than 70 followers doesn’t mean he’s going to play him.

Interviewed on Milling About, the Shutter Island star clears up erroneous reports that he’ll be bringing David Koresh to life in a biopic.

Mark (l) says no to role of Waco nut Dave (r).

“I’m not doing that,” he tells host Robin Milling of the Hollywood project about the Branch Davidian honcho who set the sect’s Waco, Texas, headquarters ablaze in 1993 following an FBI raid—killing everyone inside, including himself.

“I read it immediately and passed on it. I didn’t want to hold up anybody, but for some reason they have it on IMDb that I’m doing that,” he adds.

“I can’t get away from it. I didn’t really respond to the story.”

Meantime, Mark can be seen in much more family-friendly fare.

The Kids Are All Right, in which he co-stars with Julianne Moore and Annette Bening, opens today nationwide. The quirky comedy tells the story of two kids conceived by artificial insemination who bring their birth father into their two-mom family.

“We were laughing our heads off during those sex scenes with the smacks,” he says of Julianne’s lesbian character.

“I would say, ‘Ahhhh, don’t pull my hair so hard!’ We knew we wanted to do that, but we were also coming up with that while we were shooting it.

“Julianne didn’t pull any punches, man! Not in a really bad way, but enough to be, like, ‘Owww!'”

3 thoughts on “Mark Ruffalo: I Won’t Be Incarnating David Koresh!”

Actually, from the accounts that I have read it was the administration at the time that killed those people, not David Koresh. Janet Reno should be in prison right now for the murder of 70+ people who had offered to the local Sheriff’s Dept. to come and see what was going on inside their compound. That was not good enough, they wanted some blitzkrieg attack to “shock and awe” the people!